We all know that these are the best forums on the net, but for some people are missing out on this enormous wealth of knowledge. We currently have 8193 unanswered posts on these forums so we are setting up the adopt an unanswered post initiative.

What's that all about?

Our aim is to reduce the number of unanswered posts on the forums. Nobody likes to be ignored so get onboard today.

surely many of these posts are just newbies asking questions that could be found by searching, going back and answering them will
a) be pointless as they will searched and found the solution
b) reward the lazey who dont search
c) fill up the forums and slow them down, werent they talking about dumping unanswered posts some time ago to speed things up

Any dupes found in the unanswered posts should be reported and a helpful reply along the lines of "I searched for x, y & z and found this post", that way dupes are gotten rid of and people will learn how to better search/ask questions._________________Search | Read | Answer | Report | Strip

Any dupes found in the unanswered posts should be reported and a helpful reply along the lines of "I searched for x, y & z and found this post", that way dupes are gotten rid of and people will learn how to better search/ask questions.

I try my best to find unanswered posts that I can lend a halfway helpful comment to. _________________Now the rainy season reminds me of Maria
The way she danced, the color of her hair
Now I'm locked inside a stall at the cantina
Eating the bananas and the cocaine off the mirror
Looking for a ticket to take me away from here

That's a great idea! I know there are newbie qeustions... sometimes im guilty of that too. However, the Gentoo forums are known for great service and even if that means pointing a newbie to an already discussed topic I think it's worth it! Half the reason I love gentoo sooo much is the wealth of knowledge on the forums! It wouldn't be there unless alot of questions were answered and people had patience with new/lazy posters! I say bravo to this idea and I'll do my best to help out!!

This isn't bugtraq, and as said, newbies might post a thread and later on find out the answer anyway, and are lazy and won't post that in the thread. You can't tell wether you're actually helping someone, or if you're simply wasting your time because the thread poster won't even read your post._________________generatesig

newbies might post a thread and later on find out the answer anyway, and are lazy and won't post that in the thread. You can't tell wether you're actually helping someone, or if you're simply wasting your time because the thread poster won't even read your post.

Granted, I have only started actively posting recently, but in my experience, this doesn't happen, so long as the post is answered in a timely fashion. Of course, if the post is left for a long while, the poster will have either found the answer themselves, or have given up altogether. But isn't this the case regardless if the poster is a newbie or not?

I would also like to point out that while answering unanswered posts is a good idea, it may not be sufficient. For example, I am sure there are several topics out there where the first response in the thread is a "Me too! I'm having the same problem!"

Whats up with all the "wasting time to post replies if the poster already found out" replies?
its a good thing anyway, because then others who have the same question can search and find it, and doesn't have to make a new post.

I have been doing this for a while now, but I am glad to see someone posting this message.

The trouble seems to be that many/most of those seem to be rather unique issues; or, issues that need to be addressed by people more guru'ish than many of us are....at present. _________________-Joseph-

In the majority of any Democrat/Republican or Liberal/Conservative Debates on TV, pay close attention to how much MORE often the Liberal/Democrat butts in and rudely talks 'over' the Conservative/Republican.

I have an enhancement proposal, for a time now, it's been on my mind but I don't nkow how to implement it.

Appart from unanswered posts, there's also the problem of the resolved posts that don't get tagges as such, it would be great if when a problem is solved, the title of the post is changed, that way, the info would bo more clear for someone seasching the forums, this task should be responsability of the original poster but could be done by the mods too._________________I am Beta, don't expect correct behaviour from me.
Take part of the adopt an unaswered post initiative

We all know that these are the best forums on the net, but for some people are missing out on this enormous wealth of knowledge. We currently have 8193 unanswered posts on these forums so we are setting up the adopt an unanswered post initiative.

8193 unanswered posts? I bet its far more, since the search function of phpBB caps at (2^15)+1 (aka 8193).

It shows currently 8191 unanswered post, but the last one shown is 4149 on page 83. Behind there are only empty pages. I wondered if this is an error with the forum or my browser, but I guess it's the forum.

Joe wrote:

I bet its far more, since the search function of phpBB caps at (2^15)+1 (aka 8193).

It shows currently 8191 unanswered post, but the last one shown is 4149 on page 83. Behind there are only empty pages. I wondered if this is an error with the forum or my browser, but I guess it's the forum.

Joe wrote:

I bet its far more, since the search function of phpBB caps at (2^15)+1 (aka 8193).

That's interesting, but sometimes there are even 8194 unanswered topics.
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I counted ones again, not 4149 but 4120 unanswered.
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This would mean that the counter up there is accurate, but it will not go past those 80 or so pages. We don't need to answer the older posts. _________________My Blog